Tunnel field effect devices and methods of fabricating tunnel field effect devices are described. In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a first drain region of a first conductivity type disposed in a first region of a substrate, a first source region of a second conductivity type disposed in the substrate, the second conductivity type being opposite the first conductivity type, a first channel region electrically coupled between the first source region and the first drain region, the first source region underlying a least a portion of the first channel region, and a first gate stack overlying the first channel region.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a manufacturing method for an array substrate and corresponding manufacturing device, which belong to the technical field of metal oxide semiconductor. The method comprises: forming an active layer, a gate insulating layer and a gate metal layer successively on a substrate; forming a gate pattern with a gate photoresist pattern on the substrate having the gate metal layer; altering a temperature of the gate photoresist pattern, so as to enable the width of the gate photoresist sub-pattern in the gate photoresist pattern to be changed; forming lightly doped drains (LDDs) at two sides of a preset area of the active layer sub-pattern in the active layer of the substrate having the changed gate photoresist pattern, the preset area being a projection area of the gate sub-pattern on the active layer sub-pattern, the length of each of the LDDs being (ab)/2, wherein a is the width of the gate photoresist sub-pattern in the changed gate photoresist pattern, b is the width of the gate sub-pattern; stripping the changed gate photoresist pattern. The embodiment of the present invention mitigates or alleviates the problem of relatively low control flexibility and relatively poor feasibility to the LDD length, which improves the control flexibility and feasibility to the LDD length, and can be used for manufacturing an array substrate.

A transistor includes a gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film, and a gate insulating film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a channel region and a low-resistance region. The channel region faces the gate electrode. The low-resistance region has a resistance value lower than a resistance value of the channel region. The gate insulating film is provided between the oxide semiconductor film and the gate electrode, and has a first surface located closer to the oxide semiconductor film and a second surface located closer to the gate electrode. The first surface of the gate insulating film has a length in a channel length direction which is greater than a maximum length of the gate electrode in the channel length direction.

A doping method for an array substrate and a manufacturing equipment. The doping method comprises: using a halftone mask to form a photoresist pattern layer on a gate insulation layer of a substrate; wherein, a polysilicon pattern layer is disposed on the substrate; the gate insulation layer covers the polysilicon pattern layer; the photoresist pattern layer corresponding to a heavily doping region forms a hollow portion; the photoresist pattern layer corresponding to a lightly doping region forms a first photoresist portion; the photoresist pattern layer corresponding to an undoped region forms a second photoresist portion; the first photoresist portion is thinner than the second photoresist portion; and performing one doping process to the polysilicon pattern layer such that the heavily doping region and the lightly doping region of the polysilicon pattern layer are formed simultaneously in order to reduce the manufacturing process of an LTPS array substrate.

In a semiconductor device including a transistor, the transistor is provided over a first insulating film, and the transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film over the first insulating film, a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, a gate electrode over the gate insulating film, a second insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film and the gate electrode, and a source and a drain electrodes electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. The first insulating film includes oxygen. The second insulating film includes hydrogen. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first region in contact with the gate insulating film and a second region in contact with the second insulating film. The first insulating film includes a third region overlapping with the first region and a fourth region overlapping with the second region. The impurity element concentration of the fourth region is higher than that of the third region.

A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a vertical channel and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A plurality of active lines are formed in a semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode having a lower height than each active line is formed on a sidewall of the active line. A first insulating layer having a height lower than that of the active line and higher than that of the gate electrode is buried between active lines, and a silicide layer is formed on an exposed upper surface and a lateral surface of the active line.

Embodiments of the invention provides a method for fabricating an array substrate comprising: forming, on a substrate, at least two semiconductor active islands, first patterns positioned on both sides of each of the semiconductor active islands, second patterns positioned at outer side of a part of the first patterns, and third patterns positioned at outer side of the rest of the first patterns, through a single patterning process; doping a semiconductor at the second patterns for once to form a semiconductor of a first conductivity type; and doping a semiconductor at the third patterns for once to form a semiconductor of a second conductivity type.

A method of manufacturing a display panel having a plurality of lightly doped drain thin film transistors arranged as a matrix includes forming a semiconductor pattern with a predetermined shape on a substrate; forming a dielectric layer covering the semiconductor pattern on the substrate; forming a metal layer on the dielectric layer; forming a photoresist patterns smaller than the semiconductor pattern on the metal layer above the semiconductor pattern; etching the metal layer to form a gate electrode smaller than the photoresist pattern; doping high concentration ions by using the photoresist pattern as a mask to form a pair of highly doped regions on the semiconductor pattern not covered by the photoresist pattern; removing the photoresist pattern; and doping low concentration ions by using the gate electrode as a mask to form a pair of lightly doped regions between the highly doped regions and a part of the semiconductor pattern.

A display device includes: a first wiring line and a second wiring line separated from each other on a substrate; a gate insulating layer on the first wiring line and the second wiring line; a step difference compensation pattern between the first wiring line and the second wiring line on the gate insulating layer; a protective layer on the step difference compensation pattern; and a pixel electrode on the protective layer.

A method of forming an LTPS TFT substrate includes: Step 1: providing a substrate and depositing a buffer layer; Step 2: depositing an a-Si layer; Step 3: depositing and patterning a silicon oxide layer; Step 4: taking the silicon oxide layer as a photomask and annealing the a-Si layer with excimer laser, so that the a-Si layer crystalizes and turns into a poly-Si layer; Step 5: forming a first poly-Si region and a second poly-Si region; Step 6: defining a heavily N-doped area and a lightly N-doped area on the first and second poly-Si regions, and forming an LDD area; Step 7: depositing and patterning a gate insulating layer; Step 8: forming a first gate and a second gate; Step 9: forming via holes; and Step 10: forming a first source/drain and a second source/drain.